Barolo Athens — Restaurant in Municipality of Filothei - Psychiko

A restaurant with a nice ambience and an attached deli shop with a wide selection of items. It is quite popular but unfortunately I do not share the enthusiasm. We ordered:

1. Beef tartare: I believe it was minced with a machine and not hand chopped. It is my fault that I did not ask before hand how it is prepared. Besides that, it was very salty and spicy. Usually when ordering tartare I am asked if I want it spicy or not. The fact that this was by default spicy and also with this amount of salt, makes me believe that the beef was not of prime quality
2. A risotto with apple and pistacchio: Tasty but not something memorable
3. Pizetti with salami picante and provolone: This was tasty as well

Overall, I would go again if one of my friends invited me there, but it would not be my first (or second) choice.

Additionally, at the end, when presented with the check and I paid via credit card, I was asked if I wanted to tip. In my opinion this is very bad form and should be at the discretion of the customer when they want to do it or not and state...

It’s not bad, but definitely not up to our expectations. We visited the restaurant during “Dine Athens”, which had a semi-fixed menu. On the plus side, the atmosphere was cute, the service was fast and the pizettis were delicious. The mushroom soup recipe was less creamy than others and with truffles, but satisfying. The salads were rather good. (Ceasar + green) The wild boar cotolette was cold and the end piece was missing (check the photo). The cauliflower was undercooked, the greens were overcooked. The lemonpie tasted AMAZING, but the portion was tiny. The tiramisu was just wrong (but looked nice). They charged us for an extra glass of wine, which they removed from the bill after we noticed. The personnel was trying to be polite and smiled, however when I said I can’t drink alcohol, I was asked twice why (uh…). It’s probably just me, but it felt awkward. Fun fact: while serving the wine with a vacuum pump, the wine got...

Have been there twice. Margarita pizza was the best of all the food. Pumpkin truffle pizza was very bad and dry, no flavour or smell of truffle whatsoever.

Second time we had salmon and chicken fillet, both of the dishes were bland and the side dishes didn’t fuse nor compliment the mains. also from the sauce consistency you could easily tell that they we’re plated and stood in the kitchen for quite some time, both mains were cold when they arrived. service seemed rather chaotic and some items like tea and coffee were forgotten. had to ask for water to be filled 3 times before it happened. after we gave our opinion on the mains to our waiter, we were offered tiramisu on the house which we didn’t really enjoy either since the appetite was long gone. the table for 2 cost us aprox 80.- for 2 mains, 1 starter, bread,...